To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.

Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.

For that matter, all this, is there a God? Corlis -- I don't care!""Huh, " I considered. "I guess I don't either"."Most people don't! All they care about, " he added grimly, "is being right".

In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn’t like.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth and they never believe me.

No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody. I'm not hear to please.

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

To follow the path look to the master follow the master walk with the master see through the master become the master.